Shantanu mentors young singers

In a never-before contest, music director Shantanu Moitra now mentors aspiring young singers from city to croon for a melodious film track.
"This is being attempted for the first time in the country where singers from your city will show their prowess for the upcoming Bengali film 'Buno Haansh'," Shantanu told PTI over phone about 'India's Most Amazing Voice' contest.
"I had seen from experience that in most of the contests the participants croon numbers popularised by Asha, Kishore, Lata, Md Rafi, in short the numbers already embedded in public memory," the lyricist-melody man said.
"So they can't come out of the influence of the masters and the gayaki," Shantanu, having scored music for 3 Idiots and Munnabhai MBBS said.

"Here the young contestants will be rendering the 'Esechhe Raat' number without any musical accompaniment in bare voice which will help us define the timbre and tonal quality. Also this being a new number the audience are not that much initiated to the styles of the duet singer Shreya (Ghosal) and Papan and sing in their individual way which we want," Shantanu said.
The contest, in association with Talenthouse India, can be entered by video-recording the song on mobile after listening to the recorded track voice. "With today's tech savvy and mobile savvy Youth it will be far easier than coming to a studio for audition initially," Moitra said.